With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.
Sharp rise in blue line is interesting
Saudi arabia funneled loads of money into mosques and extreme preachers in the Caucuses regions after the USSR fell Which lead to a lot of problems, culminating in the Chechen wars and invasion of Dagestan